Lánzate – The Jump Off - Mijente
Imagine a movement that is not simply pro-Latino…
but also pro-woman, pro-queer, pro-poor, pro-Black, pro-indigenous, pro-climate because OUR community is all of those things and WE care about all of them.
December 12 – 13, 2015 – We Launched Mijente
Beautiful People
Days
Forums
Workshops
“This is not a moment to stay on the sidelines.
Organizing teaches us that no one is coming to save us, we transform ourselves in order to save ourselves, and each other.
The question is, how can this be done?”
— From An Introduction to Mijente
Watch the Speeches
*We were also honored to have Jesus ‘Chuy’ Garcia do a keynote but didn’t get it on film.
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Alan Snow
"Lánzate, was, as Nayirrah Waheed says, like "everything I've lost returned to me". Growing up a brown kid in a white community with a second generation dad who had been asked to aspire to whiteness, I did not have a lot of access to feeling a part of a Latinx community. I felt emotional many times, while we danced, while we chanted in Spanish, compared Chapurrado recipes, told stories, and just spend political time together. I felt embraced by and enlaced in something I had always craved."
"Nuestra gente es hermosa y poderosa e inspiradora y ha sido herida y rota y luchan, siento un gran honor el caminar junto a tantas de estas personas."
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Alan Snow
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Rick Hammer
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Peter Smith
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"I haven't felt that challenged to go out of my comfort zone in a while, but at the same time, felt like I was being held by so many people as I navigated the conversation."
From the Makers for the #Not1More Campaign
"We have a lot of work to do in our continued fight for liberation. It was great to connect with like minded folx and organizers but we have a lot of work to do to continue to fight for liberation and against anti-blackness."
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Martin Chen
"Tenemos mucho trabajo que hacer en nuestra continua lucha por la liberación. Fue buenísimo el conectar con personas que piensan como nosotros y con organizadores pero tenemos mucho trabajo para poder continuar la lucha por la liberación y en contra de los opositores a la comunidades negras."
"Our people are so beautiful and powerful and inspiring and hurt and broken and fighting back, and I'm so honored to be walking together with so many of these folx."
"No había sido retado a salir de mi área de confort en algún tiempo, pero al mismo tiempo me sentí respaldada por tanta gente mientras navegué por las conversaciones."
Is Mijente the Social Movement Latinxs Have Been Waiting for?
-Latina Magazine-
Con toda la fuerza de mijente
-Hermelinda Cortes-
Mijente’s Lánzate Gathers Latinxs & Chicanxs in Chicago
-Ain’t I Latina-